, 1887-11-03

Cinnamon because they are China
men, but | am down on the matter in
which they are imported into the
| United States to compete with the
workingmeu- 1t Is because they are
/ poems, slaves under the control of the
great mandarins in China, that | op
pose them. The federal courts in
California had made the law restrict-
ing Chinese emigration Il mulity,
No one could tell oNe Chinaman from
another, and their nation Is a nation
of liars"
\ Washington special of the DIST.
to the Philadelphia Times says that
there is much anxiety among the
friends of Mr. Charlisle. both as
regards his reelection to the chair
| and the disposition of the contest
over his seat. After careful canvas
il has been found that distinctively
labor representatives and those
elected on fusion tickets have suffi-
cient numerical strength if exercised
to determine the congressional fate
of Mr.. Carlisle with the co -operStion
of the republicans.
Colonel Fred Grant is proving to
be an excellent candidate for the
Republicans of New York. He Is
developing strength i'll unsuspccted
quarters and the indications now are
that his nomination Will prove to be
the wisest thing that the Republicans
Of the Emirpe state have done for
many years. Colonel Grant is
making Il complete canvas of the
slate and Is winning golden opinions
everywhere. He is not all orator. but
he has plain. bluut way of speaking
which remind those who hear him
Of his great father The Democrats
are in despair at finding nothing in
his record which they are able to
assall and contiue themselves to reit-
Grating theIwell known fact that he is
the son of MS father The present
indications are that Colonel Grant
will be triumphantly ebected,
The Canadian Pacific is rapidly
building an eastern extension to the
Atlantic seabOard across the state of
Maine. The road enters the western
boundary of the state in the northern
part of Franklin county, and travers-
eS the watershed between the head
waters of the Moose river, q tributary
of the Kennebec, and those of the
Chaduiere river, which flows into the
st. Lawrence 1t follows closely the
shores of Moosehead lake, passing
round its southern end to the town
of Greenville, thence on to the Pc
| nobscot river, which it crosses at
Mattawamkeap, some seventy miles
above Bangor, and thence by the
| most direct practicable route into
New Brunswick 1t passes through
the state little north of its
geographical center. Much of the
way the country is very rugged, and
construction is difficult and expen-
sive- Several thousand men are en-
ployed upon the work.
Eugene Semple, go,ener of WASH
ihgton territory, IN his annual report
10 the secretary of the interior, esti-
mates the population of the territory
at 1860, an increase of over 10000
in the last two years. The taxable
property of the territory, exclusive OF
railroad property is given at $50, ,6S3,
S9G, an increase of nearly S2,000,000
over last year. Settlement on public
lands, of which nearly 100000
acres remain unsurveyed, has been
retarded by that fact, by the uncer-
tainty of Northern Pacific titles, by
extensive Indian reservations, etc.
The report speaks at length of the
recources and capabilities of the ter
rltory, in the way of crops, stock.rais-
ing, minerals and lumber production,
etc, and of their great variety and
Importance. OF $1,000 children of
school age, the average daily atten =
dance is about 22000. Labor is
hardly equal to the demand The
salmon fisheries yielded S12,124,000
during the year.
Saturday morning Deputy ColIec-
tor j. III. Price and:Inspector Major j.
s. Jones arrested W. H. Hon and S.
". Rosentield of this city for having
III their possession a box containing
30 pounds of unstamped opium. Re
comfy the officers We're informed that
contraband opium was being sent to
Portland on the freight trains leav-.
ing here in the night, and for some
time they have been on tho alert for
the smugglers. This morning about
! q clock they went out to the sum
nit, three miles south of here, on the
top of the hill, where the switch en-